ORTIS ALESSANDRO

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Curriculum

Alessandro Ortis is Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Adjunt Professor of Basics of Computing at the Data Science for Management course of the University of Catania. He has been working in the field of Computer Vision research since 2012, when he joined to the IPLab (Image Processing Laboratory). In 2015 Alessandro was awarded with the Archimede Prize for the excellence of academic career conferred by the University of Catania. In January 2019 he has achieved the PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science, with a PhD Thesis entitled “Methods for Sentiment Analysis and Social Media Popularity of Crowdsourced Visual Contents”. The thesis investigates several aspects related to Visual Sentiment Analysis, applied on crowdsourced images and videos. The main goal of the presented works is to infer the users' preferences by exploiting the crowdsourcing paradigm, as well as to predict the impact of visual contents shared through social media networks. Alessandro spent a part of his PhD as a Visiting Researcher at the Imperial College in London, during which he addressed problems related to the assessment of social influencer advertainment campaigns performed through social media. His research interests lie in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Multimedia. Alessandro is reviewer for several International Conferences and Journals, co-editor of PATTERNS 2017, lecturer at SIGMAP 2019 and member of the Scientific Committee of the MULTIFORESEE 2019 Conference (MULTI-modal Imaging of FOREnsic SciEnce Evidence tools for Forensic Science). He is co-author of more than 15 papers published in International Conferences, 5 Journals and co-inventor of 1 International Patent. Alessandro is also member of several international associations/societies such as IEEE Signal Processing Society, CVPL (Italian association fo the research in Computer Vision, Pattern recognition and machine Learning), CoEHAR (Cennter of Excellence for the Acceleration of HArm Reduction) and REPRISE ( expert reviewers for research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research).